Is anybody working on solving the problem from the other direction, by e.g. genetically modifying chickens so that they don’t have brains? ETA: I vaguely recall stories of chickens surviving for weeks with their heads chopped off; people fed them through their open throat. Gruesome, but also evidence that something like this should be possible.
There’s been some discussion over the years of genetically engineering farm animals so they don’t experience pain, but I don’t know of any efforts to remove sentience entirely.
Is anybody working on solving the problem from the other direction, by e.g. genetically modifying chickens so that they don’t have brains? ETA: I vaguely recall stories of chickens surviving for weeks with their heads chopped off; people fed them through their open throat. Gruesome, but also evidence that something like this should be possible.
Adam Shriver has a few papers on breeding animals with the pain genes knocked out. See this paper for example.
There’s been some discussion over the years of genetically engineering farm animals so they don’t experience pain, but I don’t know of any efforts to remove sentience entirely.
If anybody’s doing this, I would love to talk to them.